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M. L. TRIVISONNO.

HAT.

APPLICATION FILED OCT. 28. I914.

Patented Dec. 7, 1915.

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MICHAEL L. TRIVISONNO, 0F CLEVELAND, OHIO.

HAT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. "X, 11915..

Application filed October as, 1914. Serial No. 869,012.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MICHAEL L. TRIVI- SONNO, a subject of the King of Italy, residing at Cleveland, in the county of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Improvement iniHats, of which the following is a specification, the principle of the invention being herein explained and the best mode in which I have contemplated applying that principle, so as to distinguish it from other inventions.

This invention is associated with a hat and particularly with the construction and formation thereof whereby the portions of the head against which it is adapted to be seated are definitely prescribed and limited.

The'object of my invention is to provide a head apparel which will not cause baldness.

It is an established though not generally known fact that the permanent loss of hair from the scalp is (pathological and inherent conditions being not unfavorable) attributable to the need, custom or fashion of wearing hats, especially such as tightly bind or firmly wedge the head. This deplorable circumstance is owing to the continued reduction in the supply of nourishment which nature intended to have supplied to the follicles. The hat-sweat of the ordinary type of hat in vogue today is caused to rest upon the wearers headsome little distance above the ears and around in both directions between these organs. In this position the hat-sweat loop crosses the four largest of the superficial blood vessels of the human head, namely: the right and left occipital and the right and left temporal which latter have posterior and anterior branches. \Vhile the blood vessels of the head as elsewhere inosculate quite generally with respect to each other, the two pairsjust mentioned are the principal factors in the plexus which is designed to afford circulation about the vertex of the scalp. If, then, the blood circulation were even so" much as regularly hindered by compression of certain of these vessels against the skull, the vitality of the hairs around the crown of the head might logically be expected to diminish. Their vitality is diminished and progressively so until they fall away. The following readily fore a hat be constructed to fit the head with sutlicient firmness and yet avoid compressing any or all of the more important superficial blood vessels of the scalp, notably such as are directly tributary to the temporal and occipital arteries and veins, the attainment of my inventive object will be assured. My inventive conception is associated with means which are hereinafter explained and variously combined in the claims. y

While the annexed drawings and particular description thereof, set forth in detail the preferred and modified forms embodying my invention, it should be understood that the means only exemplify some of several diversified mechanical forms with which the principle of my invention may be properly applied.

' Adverting to the drawings z-Figure Iis a perspective view of a common type of hat. Fig. II is a top view of a hat, embodying my invention applied to the outline of a headand with the crown cut away. Fig. III is a-section on line VI- VI of Fig. V. Fig. IV is a view corresponding to Fig. V of a simplified modification.

, The object of my invention is to provide a hat which even if very firmlyseated upon the head will not compress against the skull of the latter, the temporal and occipital blood vessels, to lessen the natural and necessary amount of flow therethrough.

I would have it understood that while the hat shown in Fig. I is of the conven- In the preferred embodiment of my invention, I elect to have portions of the crown of the hat corresponding to the brim recesses of differing, softer and in fact of elastic material. A pair of such special crown insert portions 5 and 6, are supplied on each side at forward and rearward pointsv respectively. I They extend upwardly above the hat band from the lower edge thereof 'to otherwise correspond, however, with the recesses 3 and- 4 respectively. The reason for these elastic inserts 5 and 6, which are perhaps best seen in Fig. I, isto provide a covering for these side portions of the head which are traversed by the blood vessels stated and which covering will serve as aconnecting medium for the hat structure, capable of yielding outwardly relative to the hat in its entirety. Secured at and extending somewhat above the junction of the crown l and brim 2 is an interior hat-band 7 having so called hat-sweat portions which actually engage the head as shown in Fig. III. The hat-band by reason of being sewn or. otherwise affixed to the inner edge of the brim is adapted to assume an identical shape therewith. It includes therefore a front sweat 8, a rear sweat 9, and an' intermediate sweat portion 10, all of which are intended to abut the head. It also includes two portions 11, corresponding in contour with the recesses 3., and two portions 12 corresponding with the recesses 4:. It is manifest therefore that the several separated hat-sweats of a hat embodying my invention, are intended to engage merely the front and rear of the head and in this'instance, though optionally, the .two intermediate portions which have been designated by the letter I. As an added factor, however, tending to insure the outward spacing of certaincraniometrical sections of the interior hat-band fromthe head and particularlyfrom important superficial blood vessels thereof, I choosefto insert between the lowermost edge of the crown as a whole and the hatband' 7, .a metal reinforcing and shaping band 13, clearlyseen in Figs. II and III. This band 13 may be permanentlyshaped to assume a configuration best suited to the particular shape of head of the wearer with consideration of the beneficent purpose of my invention.

The modification depicted in Fig. IV consists in the substitution of a single pair of outward recesses 14 in the brim in place of two pairs and also in the omission of the reinforcing band 18. As so constructed there would be only two side elastic portions 15 corresponding in longitudinal extent with the recesses 14. The hat-band 16 would in this instance firmly engage as hat-sweats only across the forehead at 17 and across the very rear of the head at 18.

I claim l. A hat comprising a brim having its inner edge provided with definitely located recesses and a hat band having portions adapted to occupy said recesses.

2. A hat comprising a crown portion, a brim portion having portions of its inner edge outwardly recessed, said crown having cut out portions correspondingly located at said'brim recesses, inserts secured between said crown and brim and of differing texture than said crown portion for the purpose specified.

3. A hat comprising a brim having its inner edge fashioned with oppositely disposed outward recesses, a crown having its lower portion of like configuration as such edge, a stiffening band of like configuration as the inner edge of said brim and a hat band above said brim and secured to said stiffening band.

4. A hat comprising a crown having portions of its lower edge recessed, an interior hat band bent outwardly into said recesses, and a stifi'ening form for maintaining said portion in such position.

5. A hat comprising a brim having its inner edge formed at definite craniomctrical points with recessed areas, and a crown, the lower edge section of the latter having elastic and non-elastic portions alternately arranged therealong, said elastic portions substantially conforming and secured to said brim recesses.

6. A hat comprising a brim, and a crown, said crown being formed at definite craniometrical points with more flexible portions than at any other points, said more flexible portions extending upwardly above said brim. said portions being normally bent outwardly and adapted to yield still further in an outward direction.

7. A hat comprising a crown fashioned along its lower edge with a plurality of outwardly recessed portions, the latter being definitely separated and arranged therearound, a brim carried by such crown and having outwardly recessed portions correspondinglv spaced and conforming to. said first mentioned recessed portions, and a hat band of like configuration as and secured Signed by me this 24th day of October, along the entire junction of said crown and 1914.

brim whereby to present separated hat- MICHAEL L. TRIVISONNO. sweat sections between said recessed por- Attested by- 5 tions respectively for engagement with the MARIE W. WAGNER,

head of the wearer. CURT B. MUELLER.

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